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...arrangement introduced this year the teams from the various colleges will be divided into two strips, two teams from each strip qualifying for the finals by touches. Up to this time, qualification for the finals has been determined by fouls and a round-robin. This is considered the most important fencing event of the year, as nine other eastern colleges are entered in the lists: they are: Army, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Hamilton, Navy, Technology, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. The Army and Navy are generally considered the favorites...
...squads of University tennis players are now in training for the coming season. One team is playing round-robin tournaments at Longwood to find out who will make the Southern trip, which will start April 14. The other will practice in the Freshman gymnasium on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, until the outside courts are ready...
Owing to the small number of entries in the Faculty tournament, it was decided to change it to a round robin tourney. It is hoped that those who have entered the tournament will play each other as often as possible. Entries may still be made...
...pictures is good fiction of a distinctive type. It must have, besides dramatic possibilities, "color" and good delineation of character. Great novels of the past have been unearthed, revamped, and set before the public as "super-productions". Myths have been blended into history to make a film character of Robin Hood. "Eugenie Grandet", rechristened "The Conquering Power," made a "gripping photo-drama". But in all of these the character has appeared ready-made for the actor to interpret. The average scenario supplies nothing more than the mechanics of the plot; the conception of the character is left entirely...
...pictures shown is also to be decided by "public opinion", and the management has asked for suggestions. If Doug Fairbanks and feature films satisfy the popular taste, they will necessarily be chosen from among those of a year or more ago, for the cost of new pictures such as Robin Hood would be too great. Or comedies, mixed with shorter pictures and news reels, could make up the program. Educational films only are taboo, for they belong properly to the class room, and the purpose of the experiment is to interest undergraduates as generally as possible...